I wouldn’t go that far. The last two Democratic administrations expanded funding of ICE. Obama in particular expanded their powers. So while obviously yes they’re not totally responsible for this they do share in the responsibility of it. You shouldn’t give fascists building blocks, cuz they tend to build murder machines out of them.

It’d be very nice if they would, you know, take some responsibility by understanding it’s their job to fight against this and clean it up also. Instead of whatever Chuck Schumer is doing now.

Certainly is responsible for a lot of upholstery stains

Pretty good end of the season I suppose. Certainly wasn’t boring.

That was such an absurd football game.

Fuuuuck. If we lose Bolles it could kill the playoff run before it starts.

It’s Merrick Garland’s fault. Also Joe Biden’s for nominating him though. Sure a few judges should be on that list as well.

Someone’s had Chicago style deep dish for the first time I see.

Except the red states are going to do what he says and the blue states are going to be invaded by national Guardsmen from the red States.

Good Lord that is so much worse than I thought it was going to be. The whole company should be held criminally liable for this. CEOs and programmers should be going to jail.

That’s like wearing sunscreen and then sitting under a UV lamp all day. It’s better obviously, but still not a great idea.

I don’t know Vance probably doesn’t believe in divorce so I’m thinking he’ll just have her killed like he did Kirk. Allegedly.

The comic doesn’t say the event doesn’t have meaning its saying the start and finish ppint doesn’t have meaning. Which is exactly what you’re saying.

2017 I think.

Not that it was ever that stringent or widely enforced to begin with.

Apparently it had some weird weapons, which we’ve never seen in other Grand Theft Auto surely…

No

Yeah I imagine Vance’s wife might have an unfortunate accident any day now.

Well that is certainly part of it. But I think that’s just a piece of the whole. Protest, and more importantly long-term consistent protest, is the most effective means of change. Not for the protest in and of themselves but for the effect they have on society around them. They can as you mentioned Inspire more militant action, which sometimes is helpful in spreading the goals of the protest, but not always. More than that they can change National consciousness. Which is something we forget. Something in our current instant gratification age we don’t seem to remember.

Most change is done at extremely slow pace. Years and even decades. I’m reminded of English abolition, the destruction of the English slave trade which destroyed chattel slavery in most of the western world. That took decades. Decades of consistent action. Of small victories. Of constant pressure. Slowly changing the awareness and minds of the entire Empire.

I’m reminded of civil rights in America, which most of us don’t seem to remember very well. Cuz they think it started with Martin Luther King, as if he was source of it. When in reality he was chosen to be the face of civil rights movement by people who had been working for years and years. And without those people we don’t have Martin Luther King and we don’t have Malcolm X either. We don’t get to that point until National Consciousness begins to change. Until awareness, yes awareness, changes.

Which is the real reason why governments want to choke them out. One protest doesn’t upset a government. Continued protest upsets the government. Entrenched power would love it if you have one protest and then lose heart immediately. The second protest seems likely to continue is when they start cracking down heavily.

Neither do I what? You see what I mean, that doesn’t make any sense?

A government made of Representatives you elect oppress something you elected? What? That doesn’t make any sense. Not the concept, whatever that may be, the sentence doesn’t make sense.

That was just completely incoherent. I have no earthly idea what you were trying to convey here.

I’m rewatching a Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood for the first time since I think it came out I guess. There’s two things that are striking me. One they all just stand around while bad things happen a lot, but I guess that’s just Anime. The other thing is I have no idea it was so long. It’s too long. I guess I remember it being like you know 28 episodes or something. This show is stretching so much. It should have been shorter.

edit Oh and one more thing, where are all the Alchemists? In a show called Fullmetal Alchemist outside of the first few episodes there aren’t any. It’s weird there’s not more running around.